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The Dems strategy is that the House would pass the Senate’s version of the bill then both chambers would approve changes under the budget reconciliation process, which could pass the Senate with a simple 51-vote majority

After 7 grueling hours of partisan lecturing it appears that health care reform is either dead, or will be passed with a minimal number of democrats voting and just barely passing the largest social program in the history of the United States.

If the President plans to use the existing House and Senate bills as a starting point for next week’s health care summit with Republican leaders next week, where do you think reform will end up?  According to recent zogby polls the Americans want Congress to start the health care debate over from scratch.

Democrats are facing the reality that continuing their ambitious politically risky bills and having nothing to show for it could result in disaster in November elections. Congressional leaders say they have no clear viable solution to pass the existing health-care reform bills at the present time.  See AP article

“Thursday, December 3, 2009 is one of the drugs used on the sickest patients, and it is not effective against the H1N1 virus in only a few cases. But epidemiologists said experience with other flu strains shows that resistance can spread quickly, making monitoring and prevention crucial”. Click Here for entire article

Later today the WHO (The World Health Organization) will release a 10 year study regarding cell phones and cancer.

The AP reported yesterday that President Obama has declared H1N1 a National emergency.  ”The declaration, signed Friday night and announced Saturday, comes with the disease more prevalent than ever in the country and production delays undercutting the government’s initial, optimistic estimates that as many as 120 million doses of the vaccine could be available by mid-October”.